Polymyositis associated with asymptomatic primary biliary cirrhosis

Clinical and Experimental Rheumatology

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 172-174

  Bondeson, J ^a,b   Veress, B ^a   Lindroth, Y ^a   Lindgren, S ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Antimitochondrial antibodies; Myositis; Polymyositis; Primary biliary cirrhosis

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRION ANTIBODY;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; HUMAN; MALE; MITOCHONDRION; MUSCLE BIOPSY; PERICARDITIS; PLEURISY; POLYARTHRITIS; POLYMYOSITIS; PRIMARY BILIARY CIRRHOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TACHYCARDIA;

ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS; ANTIBODIES; AZATHIOPRINE; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; LIVER; LIVER CIRRHOSIS, BILIARY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MITOCHONDRIA; MUSCLES; POLYMYOSITIS; PREDNISOLONE;

EID: 0031744968     PISSN: 0392856X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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